Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan, Former President of Maldives and Visiting Distinguished Fellow of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy: When there is rivalry between big powers, then it affects the small ones. There’s an African saying: “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that gets affected.”

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